I'm on vacation so I don't have access to my stored emails, but when I get
home I will post Brent's actual comment. He told me that someone had
submitted to the Official Cassidy Clan their Cassity line which included
our Old Peter and showed him linked to the Andrew>Patrick>etc. lineage that
is shown in the Clogher register. So he asked me what proof of this we had
and I told him none that anyone has ever shared with me. He then made a
statement in essence that he seriously doubted that our Old Peter was of
that particular line, but I certainly don't think he meant that we are not
originally from the Fermanagh area. Much as you could be a Cassity from the
Bath County, KY area, but not be directly descended from David Cassity and
Elizabeth Blair.

>
> Hi Linda et. al.,
>
>
>
> I am most interested in following up on your last statement where you
stated
> &quot;Brent Cassidy,
>
> who runs the Official Cassidy Family Genealogy site told me that it was
> highly unlikely&quot; that our
>
> Peter was connected to this well-known Cassidy line cited in the Clogher
> Register.&quot;
>
>
>
> I wonder if you might elaborate in this, especially in light of the DNA
> results that show that there are different unrelated descendants with the
> surname &quot;Cassidy&quot; or &quot;Cassity&quot; that I assume all
believe that they trace
> back to the County Fermanagh area of Ireland. Although there are many
> reasons that may account for this, even without the DNA, these various
lines
> show no documentary linkage with each other in the past.
>
>
>
> Specific to the Cassity line down from Peter, we do know that this line
did
> have a connection to the Armstrongs in the past, as well as the
Thompson's,
> and in the area of Ballycassidy, the Armstrong, Cassidy and Thompson names
> have carried forward in close proximity in this area of Ireland at least
> into the 20th century. So is it my interpretation of Brent Cassidy's
comment
> that the Peter Cassity descendants are probably not connected in anyway to
> the Cassidy's mentioned in the Clogher accounts, and perhaps not connected
> to the Cassidy's buried on Devenish Island. Set me straight!
>
>
>
> I'm still learning and trying to figure out the known known's from the
known
> unknown's, so forgive me for sounding ill-informed - cause I am.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Rolla
>
>
>
> http://webpages.charter.net/rlqueen/DNA/queenmarker.htm
>
> http://webpages.charter.net/rlqueen/DNA/queenmarker-x.htm
>
> http://www.familytreedna.com/public/queenDNA/
>
> http://webpages.charter.net/rlqueen
>
>
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
>
>
> From: Linda Cassidy Lewis
>
> Date: 06/15/06 07:29:39
>
> To:
>
> Subject: RE: [CASSITY-L] Peter Cassity of August co Virginia &amp; Bath Co
> Kentucky
>
>
>
> Anna,
>
>
>
> I'm interested to know more about this will. Could you tell me how to find
>
> it?
>
>
>
> Several years ago, I was contacted by a man who told me that my Peter
>
> Cassity (born est. c.1725) was the son of Cornelius (Neil) Cassity, so I
>
> researched this extensively. In the end, this man admitted that he was
>
> wrong, but we agreed that there could have been some connection between
>
> Cornelius and Peter, possibly as brothers. However, by that time this man
>
> had already sent his Cornelius speculation to many libraries and
historical
>
> societies, so it still crops up as &quot;fact.&quot; At the
Cassity/Cassidy Family
>
> Association website I posted an article I wrote on this issue.
>
> http://www.cassidyfamilyassociation.org/pvn.html
>
>
>
> There is no evidence to connect the Peter Cassity, Sr. of old Augusta Co.
VA
>
> to the Andrew who is shown in the LDS records. I discussed this with the
son
>
> of the man who submitted that ancestry and after he searched through his
>
> deceased father's files, he concluded that since his father had cited no
>
> documentatiion for this, it was likely just speculation.
>
>
>
> This William Allen was also the man who originated the idea that our Peter
>
> Cassity married Ann Melissa Armstrong. Though the date of birth, and
parents
>
> he gives for Ann Melissa can be verified, there is no evidence she married
a
>
> Peter Cassity. I believe the confusion lies in the fact that Old Peter's
>
> grandson Peter Thompson Cassity married a woman named Mary Melissa
>
> Armstrong.
>
>
>
> Also, Brent Cassidy, who runs the Offical Cassidy Family Genealogy site
told
>
> me that it was &quot;highly unlikely&quot; that our Peter was connected to
this
>
> well-known Cassidy line cited in the Clogher Register.
>
>
>
> Linda
>
>
>
>
>
> &gt;From:
>
> &gt;Reply-To:
>
> &gt;To:
>
> &gt;Subject: [CASSITY-L] Peter Cassity of August co Virginia &amp; Bath Co
Kentucky
>
> &gt;Date: 14 Jun 2006 13:53:57 -0600
>
> &gt;
>
> &gt;This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
>
> &gt;
>
> &gt;Surnames: Cassity
>
> &gt;Classification: Query
>
> &gt;
>
> &gt;Message Board URL:
>
> &gt;
>
> &gt;http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EEI.2ACIB/75
>
> &gt;
>
> &gt;Message Board Post:
>
> &gt;
>
> &gt;Looking for information to verify who this person's parents were and
if he
>
> &gt;did marry Melissa Ann Armstrong. I recently read a post and copy of a
will
>
> &gt;stating Peter's father might have been one Neal Cassity (Mccafferty)
name
>
> &gt;used in Ireland does anyone know for sure or is the father of Peter,
Andrew
>
> &gt;Cassity.
>
> &gt;
>
> &gt;
>
> &gt;Thanks for any assitance
>
> &gt;
>
> &gt;Anna Hutton
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